About Geospatialmethods.org:

Geospatialmethods.org began at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder Colorado. The feeling was that at least some of what we do, while motivated by the unique needs of the cryospheric science community, was generally applicable and probably could be useful outside that community. Moreover we had an interest in creating a source for the kind of information we wished we'd had access to when we were starting some of these projects.

The hope is that geospatialmethods.org can serve as a portal, repository, or some combination of the two, for methods, techniques, and software that is generally applicable to the earth science research community. To that end we'd like to encourage potential collaborators and contributors to contact us.

Contributors:

Mary Jo Brodzik is an Associate Scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) located at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado. She received a Bachelors of Arts, Summa cum laude, in Mathematics from Fordham University in 1987. Her experience includes software development, validation and verification on Defense Department satellite command and control and satellite tracking systems. She has implemented software to produce and analyze various passive microwave products at NSIDC, including developing optimization algorithms for the current SSM/I EASE-Grid Pathfinder operational software that incorporates Backus-Gilbert interpolation, and algorithms to combine snow and sea ice data from a variety of visible and microwave satellite imagery. Her research interests include passive microwave remote sensing of snow and data quality control. She is currently upgrading the existing system that produces EASE-Grid SSM/I data to work with AMSR-E data. She is a member of IEEE and the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society.

Kenneth W. Knowles is an Associate Scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) located at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado. He received a Bachelors of Science in Applied Mathematics from the University of Colorado in 1983. His experience includes software development for satellite remote sensing, numerical modeling, scientific visualization, cartography, photogrammetry, image processing, expert systems design, and real-time programming for embedded systems.

Ross S. Swick is an Associate Scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) located at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado. He received a Bachelors of Arts in Mathematics from St. Olaf College in 1985 and a Masters of Science in Mathematics from the University of Illinois in 1989. His experience includes interface development for data search and order and algorithm development for spatial area comparisons. His research interests include spherical trigonometry, spatial reference systems, geospatial database technologies, geospatial search methodologies, user interface technologies, and distributed data systems.